An Exercise Plan Effective for African Americans with Arthritis
Both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can cause a significant amount of pain, stiffness and disability. There is no cure for either condition, meaning that patients often struggle to fight...
View ArticleLimit Back Pain When Traveling: Tips for the Car Ride
As the holidays approach, many people are gearing up for travel. A long car ride can be rough on the body for drivers and passengers alike, particularly if they are prone to experiencing lower back...
View ArticleBest Sex Positions for Women with Back Pain
A couple months ago, exciting news emerged out of the University of Waterloo for men with back pain: the first scientifically-founded recommendations for the best and worst sex positions for different...
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Issue No.4 Released
The latest issue of “Healing Education” is out and available on Apple’s Newsstand and Google Play In this issue we explore different ways to stopping Musculoskeletal Pain and Running the right way....
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HIIT Training For Maximum Fat Burn
Losing Fat From Your Figure Is Easily Done When You Have The Right Tools Maximizing your fat burn capability is easily done with HIIT training. This issue of Healing Education is dedicated to those...
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Healing Education July Issue Released, Fat Loss
A Good Diet and Exercise will help you achieve your goals The real secret to fat loss is not all the “fat specific exercises” it is just the opposite. It is how your body works with all the extra...
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Workouts After Spinal Surgery
Spinal Surgery May affect some fitness exercises You know the worst thing about spinal surgery recovery is the pain. That is why it is a huge decision anyone has deliberated large amounts of time to...
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The 7 Principles To Stopping Back Pain
Confirm Your Email Address For a chance to Get a $5.99 Gift Stopping your back pain can be as simple as making a change to how you view diet and exercise. The toughest part to stop your back pain for...
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7 Strategies You Can Learn to Reduce Back Pain
NOTE: If you have already requested this book please check your email used to sign up for book. The purpose of my free E-book is to open the reader to new possibilities of where back pain can come...
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5 Best Products To End Back Pain
Back pain can be a moving target for everyone. However, being able to move in sport and life is a goal for most human beings. Generally, most people it start about the age of 27 and will progress into...
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Myofascial Release Improves Outcomes of Exercise Therapy in Back Pain Treatement
Myofascial release is increasing in popularity as a component of treatment for muscle-related pain conditions. This manual technique operates on the premise that chronic muscle tension results in knots...
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New Arthritis Drug May Prevent Bone Loss
While medication is in many respects an important component of rheumatoid arthritis treatment, those currently used come with notable risks. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when the body’s inflammatory...
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Omega-3’s May Protect Joints from Osteoarthritis
Obesity is a main osteoarthritis risk factor, but why? When it occurs in the knees, this seems to make sense; excess weight equals excess wear and tear. However, the condition manifests in...
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Yoga Outperforms Core Exercise Program for Lower Back Pain
Which type of exercise is best for back pain? Time and time again, from small studies to large-scale systematic reviews, research has validated the effectiveness of yoga as a form of back pain...
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Mindfulness Program Improves Pain, Opioid Misuse Issues
Mindfulness is a practice that entails taking a step back from one’s thoughts and feelings to become an observer of them. From a more objective standpoint, we’re able to adopt a more analytical and...
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Opioids May Inhibit Body’s Healing Processes
Opioid medications are commonly prescribed to patients with chronic pain. Until recently, these powerful pain-killers were only used for patients with severe pain related to cancer. Concerns about...
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FDA’s Approval of Powerful New Pain-Killer Raises Concerns
Despite the fact that the FDA’s advisory committee overwhelmingly voted against the approval of a new chronic pain medication called Zohydro toward the end of 2012, the FDA approved the drug, which hit...
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Corrective Exercise for Flatback Syndrome
Flatback syndrome is a form of postural distortion in which the normal inward lumbar curve is straightened out. This creates a pattern of muscle tension and use that can lead to chronic back pain. When...
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Acetaminophen May Be Ineffective in Management of Acute Back Pain
Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, is a commonly-used over-the-counter pain reliever. When patients present with acute lower back pain, they’re often instructed to make use of such medications...
View ArticleOpioids Linked to Testosterone Deficiency
Opioid risks are many and varied; this blog has delved into a number of them, from addiction and overdose to impaired healing. Another risk is currently coming to light in the research, one that...
View ArticleAdjust Your Sleep Position to Prevent Back Pain
While it’s common knowledge that a good mattress is important for managing and preventing lower back pain, many overlook the importance of how they sleep. Your sleep position may be contributing to...
View ArticleFemale Triathletes at High Risk of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Other Health...
Women who participate in high-impact sports, such as triathletes, are at high risk for a number of health conditions, ranging from pelvic floor dysfunction to low bone density. There are many causes of...
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Buckle Kids Up Right to Prevent Severe Injury, Fatality
A car crash can drastically alter the course of a child’s life by leaving him or her with a severe injury, such as a spinal cord injury. In the most tragic of cases, a car wreck can end a child’s life....
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Two Devices Help Improve Posture
Improving posture is an important component of back pain prevention and treatment, but, for some, it’s easier intended than accomplished. Whether you’re engrossed in work activities or just lounging...
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Melatonin May Be Useful in Pain Management
Melatonin is a hormone in the body best known for its role in regulating our circadian rhythms. When people suffer from insomnia, they may take a melatonin supplement in an effort to restore nature...
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Resistance Exercise Combats Neck Tension, Pain
Chronic neck pain is a common musculoskeletal complaint. Poor posture during computer and mobile device use likely contribute to the condition’s popularity, along with stress. Poor posture and stress...
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Steroid Injections for Back Pain: Big Risks, Little Reward
Steroid injections have served as a go-to treatment for lower back pain for decades. During the procedure, anti-inflammatory medication is injected into the epidural space within the spine. Before...
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Goal Management: Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain
Developing chronic pain necessitates a substantial life adjustment. Aside from the constant or repetitive unpleasant physical sensations, pain patients need to adapt to changes in the activities...
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Maladaptive Cognitions Predict Transition from Acute to Chronic Back Pain
For most people, a bout of lower back pain is no big deal; it clears up with a little TLC in days or, at worst, weeks. However, for some people, pain becomes chronic. If you know somebody with chronic...
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Four Misconceptions That Hinder Back Pain Recovery
While a highly common phenomenon, back pain is still surrounded by myths and misconceptions that may sabotage the desire for back pain recovery for some people. If you develop a case of back pain, it’s...
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Factors that Influence Recovery from Spinal Surgery
The decision to have spinal surgery is a hard one, and for good reason. With questionable effectiveness rates for the treatment of lower back pain, the recent suspicion that the most popular form of...
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Light Therapy May Help Relieve Chronic Pain
Bright light therapy has long been used as a treatment method for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and is known for its high effectiveness rate in this application. The form of therapy is also used to...
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Exercise May Combat Youth Depression
Adolescence is a time of emotional and psychological development, as well as significant trials and tribulations as young people begin learning how to navigate being in the world. Signs of depression...
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Heavy Use of Nicotine Replacement Products Shares Some Risks with Smoking
Smoking is detrimental not only to the lungs, but the back as well. The nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke interferes with the diffusion of nutrients and oxygen into spinal discs, which...
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Past Abuse Can Exacerbate Chronic Pain
If you’re receiving treatment for chronic pain, there may be things about your past that you feel are irrelevant to your current treatment, but that could actually have an impact on your ability to...
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Acupressure Helps Manage Period Pain
For some women, period pain is simply a monthly nuisance; for others, the pain involved can interfere with daily activities and quality of life. For average period pain, most women reach for an...
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Physician Emphasis on Tissue Damage Can Inhibit Back Pain Recovery
The way we talk and think about lower back pain and other pain conditions has an effect on the way we physically experience them. One recent study looked at how physician comments about acute back pain...
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Best Sex Position for Men with Herniated Discs
For most individuals and couples, a healthy sex life, to include the best sex positions, is a vital component of overall well-being. Chronic back pain can take a toll on the quality of relationships...
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Guided Imagery Changes Experience of Pain by Empowering Patients
Research into chronic pain and its various treatment methods often faces a shortcoming: The typical tools used to measure pain intensity fail to account for the full experience of pain. Pain is a...
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Dairy May Help Manage, Prevent a Number of Chronic Health Conditions
Is dairy part of a healthy diet? We’ve long known that the calcium contained in dairy products is good for our bones and can help prevent osteoporosis; also, dairy’s protein content can aid in muscular...
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Opioids Only Slightly Effective for Osteoarthritis Pain
Osteoarthritis is a “wear and tear” form of arthritis in which joints deteriorate, leading to pain, stiffness and, sometimes, disability. While patients await a reliable treatment method for stopping...
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Study: Exercise Useful in Management of ADHD Symptoms
Whenever a physical or mental health condition sees a rapid rise in diagnosis rate, it begs the question: Have we just gotten better at diagnosing a real condition, or is the condition over-diagnosed?...
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Turmeric May Help Relieve Chronic Pain
While there are many causes of chronic aches and pains, inflammation is often at the very least involved, if not the initiating culprit. Inflammation occurs when the body responds to injury, from acute...
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Yoga May Be Safe, Effective for Disc-Related Back Pain
Research into the effectiveness of yoga as a form of exercise therapy for lower back pain has, time and time again, ruled in favor of this ancient form of exercise. In May of 2013, a systematic review...
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Aerobic Exercise Beneficial for Chronic Back Pain: Get Moving!
One of the main components of most back pain recovery plans is exercise. Typically, people with lower back pain are instructed to perform core exercises to strengthen the muscles in the back, pelvis,...
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Osteoporosis Affects More Women, but Prognosis Worse for Men
The discussion of osteoporosis tends to focus on women; this is because estrogen levels affect bone strength and, after menopause, women’s bones become more brittle since their estrogen levels decrease...
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Writing May be Key Component of Chronic Pain Management
Spine surgeon David Hanscom, author of Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain, offered a startling estimate in a recent interview with Fox News: As many as two-thirds of spinal...
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Depression May Worsen Prognosis of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Surgery
Lumbar spinal stenosis is a fairly common cause of chronic back pain among older people. It occurs when bone spurs or disc material impinges a nerve either within or just beyond the spinal canal. This...
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Best and Worst Sex Positions for Men with Back Pain
Recent research out of the University of Waterloo blew conventional medical advice about the best sex positions for men with lower back pain out of the water. The study offered the first...
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Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Effective for Chronic Pain...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is well-known for its ability to help patients deal both with mental and physical health issues. Chronic pain patients who undergo this form of therapy often reap...
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